On Thursday, 11 May 2017, George Kokkinidis, Leicester University, gave a seminar at the Nottingham Sumac Centre on the objectives and principles of Greek Solidarity Co-ops in the ongoing crisis. While Greece gave in to the restructuring demands by the European Union (EU) in the summer of [...]
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UNRAVELLING THE POLITICS OF DISARRAY
Fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Politics and International Relations
University of Nottingham, 15th June 2017
Clive Granger Building, University Park
The new challenges facing societies across the globe have dismantled [...]
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Brexit demonstrated clearly what many had perceived to be impossible: European integration is reversible. The potential breakup of the European Union (EU) has been welcomed by people on the political right as well as some on the left. While the former hail the return of national sovereignty, [...]
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China is generally regarded as the new economic powerhouse in the global political economy. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet, there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay [...]
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In 2014, Ben Selwyn published the book The Global Development Crisis, in which he critically engages with market-led and state-led developmental models alike. Importantly, he puts forward the novel concept of labour centred development. In this blog post, I will discuss the main [...]
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The notion of uneven and combined development (U&CD), introduced by Leon Trotsky in his assessment of the Russian political economy and the possibilities of transformation toward communism in the early 20th century, has gained increasing attention within [...]
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On Tuesday, 7 June 2016, the Marxism Reading Group of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relation at the University of Nottingham/UK celebrated its tenth anniversary. To mark the event we hosted [...]
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Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Marxism Reading Group at Nottingham
This semester, the Marxism Reading Group of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham will celebrate [...]
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